DmC had me and then it lost me

[Kim]

I will be perfectly honest and say I've never really been super excited for Ninja Theory's take on the Devil May Cry franchise. They do some stuff really well, but none of it is really the stuff I like about the DMC games. That and there was stuff floating around that painted them as really dismissive towards the original games and their fans and about how they wanted to make the DMC games less "Japanese," which also bugs me for a number of reasons I won't get into at the moment. I still figured it would be a good game, just not a good game in the ways I wanted it to be.

So, today this trailer went up.

I'm watching it, and I'm finally in. This looks fun. It's bright, colorful, imaginative, and fast-paced. Begrudgingly, I admit that this looks pretty good.

UNTIL the end, when we see what seems to be some ghost chick or a lady in another world or something. At that point, we get the following exchange:

"Dante! It's chaos out here! But I found a way out!"
"Where?"
"There! I marked it!"

Already we have a character whose roles in the game I expect will be relegated to, "This is how you use this ability, Dante!" and "Your next objective is the factor on the edge of town, Dante!" and "You've gotta help rescue me, Dante!" Not exactly something I'm looking for and the dialogue just doesn't seem to work. So that killed my interest.

FAKE-EDIT: Someone linked me another trailer.



Combat looks good, though something about it looks off in a way I can't name. I'm still really not liking the dialogue or Dante's friend.

Also, someone pointed out that the eye gates may mean we end up saddled with forced stealth segments. I'm hoping not, but that could very well end up happening.

I admit I'm biased, but this still just bugs the hell out of me.